Apparel-corset.



Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

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APPAREL-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1917.

Application filed October 12, 1916. Serial No. 125,177.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANrnL Kors, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing in the borough Qf Manhattan, city,- Ceunty, and State of New York, have invented an Im*V provement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparel corset and more particularly to devices associated therewith for relieving and distributing the pressure at the small of the back, and furthermore is an improvement on the corset shown and described in Letters Patent' No. 1,202,010 granted to me October 17, 1916, for an improvement in apparel corsets.

In the patent to which reference has just been made there is disclosed a corset in which back relief straps are employed on the inner side of each corset body half placed at the waist line and connected and extending from approximately the hip section to the rear lacing edge of the garment. In this structure the back relief strap section necessarily results in a double or two-part structure, and primarily the object of this invention is to effect the same functions and obtain the same results without a double thickness at this particular portion of the gar ment. rlhe adjustment of the back relief strap may be precisely the same in the corset embodying my present invention as is the case in the garment shown and described in the Letters Patent aforesaid. In both cases the back relief strap is adjustable to posif. tion preferably by being associated with the lacing of the garment by the laces employed at the back so that the rear edge of the relief strap in adjusting it to place is drawn toward the back lacing edge of the garment and away from the body of the wearer, whereby the relief strap is caused to tit the body of the wearer more snugly than the adjacent parts of the garment to relieve and distribute the pressure which would otherwise be brought to bear against the small of the back. In my present invention, however, as hereinbefore stated, in order to obviate the double thickness of the garment at the back relief strap section, this relief strap extends over or bridges a space in the body of the garment as will be hereinafter more particularly described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of an apparel corset illustrating my present invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one of the corset body halves looking at the inner side of the garment and showing a. number of tapes comprising the back relief strap as broken away in order to more clearly illustrate they structure, and Fig. 3 isa partial elevation of the rear inner section of a corset illustrating a modified form ofthe invention.

Referring to the drawing, the corset body embodying this invention may be made in halves indicated at 10 and 11, each of which as is customary is provided along its front edge with steels 12, fitted with clasps 13 by which the front edges of the garment may be connected. edge of each corset body half may be provided with series of eyelets 14 through which suitable laces are passed to adjust and secure the garment in position on the body of the wearer, while depending from the lower edge of the garment I may employ suitable hose supporters 15, and still furthermore adjacent the rear lacing edge, and in the bottom of the garment I may employ elastic inserts 16 similar for example to those shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,062,977, granted to me May 27, 1913, for an improvement in corsets.

In carrying out my present invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 each corset body half at the waist line section at the rear there is provided a space or opening indicated at 17. Extending over or bridging this space and running from approximately the hip section toward the rear of the corset body half I employ a relief strap 18. As illustrated, this relief strap preferably comprises a plurality of tapes 19 secured at corresponding edges in the body of the garment adjacent the hip section at the waist line, s

and these tapes are so placed as to overlap each other at the edges and to extend rearwardly toward the lacing edge of the garment. At their opposite ends the tapes 19 are secured to a strip 20, in which there are eyelets 21 spaced in positions corresponding to the positions in which the eyelets 14' in the back lacing edge of the garment are spaced. The tapes 19 forming the back relief strap are preferably shorter than the distance between their points of connection to the garment and the rear lacing edge thereof, and inasmuch as the laces employed are threaded through the eyelets 21 as well as through the eyelets 14, it will be apparent that in adjusting the garment to position, the rear edge of the eyelet strip 20 of this Also as is customary the rear .F

back relief strap is drawn toward the rear lacing edge of the garment and away from the body of the wearer at the small of the back, and in as much as the back relief strap extends or bridges over the space 17 and extends a relatively small distance over the body of the garment, the use of this back relief strap does not cause a double thickness in the garment, and at the same time produces the same effects thereby accomplishing the same results as when a double structure is used.

By reference to Fig. 3, it will be seen that instead of providing the waist line section at the rear of the garment with an open space, the entire section or sections of the garment at the rear extending a predetermined distance from the lacing edges may be formed by a series of back tapes 22 extending upwardly from the bottom of the garment a predetermined distance, and also downwardly from the top of the garment a predetermined distance so as to leave space between the next adjacent back tapes 22 which is similar to the space 17 in the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2. As illustrated in Fig. 3, these back tapes 22 may be connected at corresponding ends adjacent a bone pocket 23, along aline of sewing 24, and at their opposite ends to the eyelet strip 25 at the rear lacing edge of the garment along a line of sewing indicated at 26. 1n this instance the space between the next adjacent back tapes 22 is bridged by a back relief strap comprising a series of tapes 27 connected at corresponding ends along the line of sewing 24, and at their opposite ends to an eyelet strip 28, in which there are eyelets 29, so that the laces em-V ployed for adjusting the garment to position may be threaded through the eyelets 29 as well as through the eyelets provided in the strip 25. The length of the tapes 27 forming this back relief strip is also preferably less than the length of the adjacent back tapes 22, so that in this instance also the same eifect is produced and results obtained as in the other form of the invention, and as in the corset shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,202,010 aforesaid.

I claim as my invention: v

le. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half, a strap connected to one end adjacent the waist line of the garment, bridging an open space therein, and extending approximately from the hip section to the rear edge of the garment, and means for adjusting the said strap to position for use.

2. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half, a back relief strap secured at one end adjacent the Waist line, bridging an open space in the body of the garment, and extending approximately from the hipsection to the rear lacing edge of the garment, and means at the opposite end of the said strap for coacting with the rear lacing edge of the garment to adjust and secure the strap in position for use.

3. In an apparel corset and inY each corset body half, a back relief strap comprising a plurality of tapes secured at corresponding ends to the body of the garment at approximately the hip section, bridging overran open space in the body of the garment, and extending rearwardly to substantially the rear lacing edge, and an eyelet strip secured to the opposite ends of the said tapes and adapted to coact with the rear lacing edge of the garment for adj usting the relief strap to position for use.

Signed by me this fifth day of October, 1916.

DANIEL KOPS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing: the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

